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Here’s a long and rather snarky<\/a> article about Disneyland regulars — folks who go there multiple times a week, who memorize trivia about the park, who argue about inconsequential matters, who collect gazillions of pins, who …<\/p>\n

… well, who sound like any other sort of fanboy obsessives, no different from SF fans, gamers, book collectors, stamp collectors, or baseball fanatics. Or, as the writer points out (one of the few insights he has), Talmudic scholars.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a long and rather snarky article about Disneyland regulars — folks who go there multiple times a week, who memorize trivia about the park, who argue about inconsequential matters,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[263,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12543,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/28\/changing_a_small_world.html","url_meta":{"origin":4426,"position":0},"title":"Changing a Small World","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Mar-08 6:56am","format":false,"excerpt":"There have been rumblings about it for some months, but Disney has now confirmed that it will be making changes to Disneyland's \"It's a Small World\" ride. 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